Unboxing the OCZ RevoDrive PCIe SSD

In an attempt to put something refreshing onto the market, OCZ put two SSD SandForce based controllers on a PCB, slapped a RAID controller on there and put it on a PCIe x4 slot. Interesting stuff as all of the sudden you have a PCIe SSD drive that performs 300, 400 and sometimes even at 500 MB/sec !

This PCIe x4 card takes a pair of SF-1200 controllers and RAIDs them together, giving you roughly the performance of two SF-1200 SSDs but on a single card. Through some unique component selection OCZ aims to keep costs within 10 - 20% of a single drive. Obviously you lose TRIM support and the overall performance should be no different than a pair of SF-1200s in RAID (on a good controller/chipset), but if you need PCIe this may be an option.

The 120Gb version of this storage unit just entered the trenches of Guru3D.com, here are some photo's and obviously the full review will follow soon: